The other day I had the pleasure of watching the trailer for the new Robin Hardy movie, Robin Hardy was the Director of The Wicker Man a film I'm sure you all know by now is near and dear to my heart. This new film is based on a book that Hardy wrote called "Cowboys for Christ" and is in a sense a spiritual sequel to the Wicker man. And in many ways the film sticks closely to genre staples found in TWM such as the singing, a naivety of (some) religious people and of course human sacrifice. The plot in this case has Christan's come over from Texas to Scotland to introduce people to Christ and come across some unsavoury people who have other ideas. Sadly however Hardy did not stick with Cowboys for Christ as the movie name instead he called it "The Wicker Tree" a title which I think lacks imagination. So thinking about TWM and some of my other favourite horror movies got me thinking that the 1970's were AMAZING for horror sure there was a few tons of crap too after all it was 10 years but just look at this list of wonderfulness.
1. The Wicker man (1973)
2. The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974)
3. Asylum (1972)
4. The Crazies (1973)
5. Count Dracula (1970)
6. The Vampire lovers (1970)
7. The last house on the left (1972)
8. The Exorcist ( 1973)
9. The hills have eyes (1977)
10. Rabid (1977)
11.Dawn of the dead (1978)
12. Halloween (1978)
13.Phantasm (1979)
14.Alien (1979)
15.Jaws (1975)
Special mention to two great movies out in the year of my birth
The Omen ( 1976)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Sunday, 27 March 2011
The 1970's the decade of awesome horror
written in blood by Laura at 18:02
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3 So say we all:
I think Jaws is the only one of those I've seen
I remember seeing The Omen at a friend's house when I was pretty young. It was in the winter and I remember being completely freaked out by a crow in a tree as I walked home. I ran all the way back and locked the door when I got in!
Happy days :)
I've seen 'Shaun of the Dead'. Does that count? :o) And I read 'To the Devil a Daughter' in my late teens and then devoured (!) every Dennis Wheatley I could lay my hands on!
Maybe the title Cowboys for Christ wouldn't go down well in the Bible belt of America, so they felt it safer to rename it?
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